When all the cardinals were seated, the sky outside was almost bright.
Aiwass felt quite excited at first. But after a few hours, he began to feel slightly bored.
Fortunately he brought Isabel. When he had nothing to do, he grabbed her hand and played with it while whispering about the current situation in Avalon and persecuting Sherlock who was not present.
That's how it is between friends - whoever is not present becomes the topic of everyone else's conversation.
The other cardinals did not react at all.
After all, given the long lifespan of the Immortals, they must learn how to waste time so as not to let their lives fall into emptiness and fatigue. The required course is to wait quietly.
The only problem is probably that there is no clean water here. If you are thirsty, you can only drink.
Because when communicating with gods, being too sober is not a good thing.
Sobriety means rationality, and by extension it means reason, analysis and disenchantment. That's also disrespectful.
For this reason, in various ancient ritual classics, there will be wine or other ritual aids with similar functions in the banquet, allowing the ritualist to quickly enter a psychedelic state that is divorced from reality. .
This is also because the existence of "wine" itself is also sacred - it requires a large amount of precious food to be brewed, and in an era when food is scarce and not everyone can eat enough, wine is An unnecessary extravagance and waste.
...Because of this, they will also be regarded as an "easy to obtain but quite precious" resource in ritual science, symbolizing "the essence that allows people to survive."
Just as bigger bait can catch bigger fish, more expensive lottery tickets give people the feeling that the probability of winning is higher - ritualists use more valuable sacrifices, which will I feel that the ritual will become sacred because of this, and the pillar god will be more likely to respond to his prayers.
——Of course, this is just a "ritualistic" explanation. In "theology" there is often an opposite interpretation.
Because the Pillar God doesn’t actually need sacrifices, and he doesn’t necessarily like drinking. They often just want to observe the attitude and determination of the ritual master.
To take a step back, even Hengwo, who likes to drink the most, still has the sacred wine brewed by the host of the banquet.
This is quite a bit like "I heard that he likes computers very much, why don't you spend two thousand yuan to buy him a graphics card". Just like for people who really like computers, computer accessories will most likely cost far more than that... Things that the gods like themselves will definitely not be sacrificed to them by mortals.
The Theocracy obviously understands this truth. Therefore, all the wine they brought out was for the bishops to drink, and not even a glass was given to the Pillar God.
But there are some exceptions this year.
Except for Aiwass, almost no cardinal has ever used the wine in front of him. Instead, always look straight ahead with a serious face, or talk to the people around youthe attendant whispered.
This situation is definitely abnormal.
It was probably like the big boss held a very high-level cocktail party, but then there was silence inside. It was quieter than when working in the company, and almost no one was drinking, and everyone was eating with their heads down seriously.
When outsiders look at this, they will definitely ask: What’s going on? Could this be the last supper? Or is the annual meeting also a memorial service?
So the reporters at the rear recorded this scene one after another, and each speculated in their hearts that the reason for the cardinals' unusual behavior -
- was because of them. Upset with Aiwass, a human,'s decision to become a Cardinal? Or is it because they don't agree with the pure white saint succeeding to the throne and becoming the pope? Or, could it be that something happened to the Pope? It can’t be that the Theocracy is about to disintegrate, right?
But these can only be inner speculations after all. You would never dare to discuss that with others - who knows how well these cardinals hear and whether they have audio or video recordings of the ceremony. If it is accidentally heard, it will be bad luck; if it is broadcast live accidentally, you may not see the sun tomorrow.
So finally, when the sun rose, Isabel had finished talking about Avalon's current situation.
After drinking four bottles of wine, Aiwass had entered a state of intoxication.
In addition to his blushing cheeks, even the depths of his pupils were shining with a golden-red brilliance... Although he looked slightly tipsy, he gave people an uninhibited look of divinity.
This is not because Aiwass is too drunk.
But the Holy Tree No. 1 here tastes completely different from the "legacy" of Queen Sophia that Isabel brought back - the bottle of Holy Tree No. 1 that had been poisoned with the immortality curse.
At first, Aiwass thought that this was just a bottle of good wine. Although "Holy Tree No. 1" is a sacred wine brewed from the blood of the candle-bearing apostle "Giant Tree", it makes Aiwass and Isabel who don't like drinking feel good... but it's nothing more than that, and it can't compare with it at all. The sky-high price it fetched on the black market.
At first, Aiwass thought this was purely because profiteers had monopolized the supply of goods and were speculating on them. I thought that these goblin profiteers really know how to play. In this era, they have already mastered the "attraction of limited luxury goods to wealthy people"...
Now Aiwass knows that it is because of Drost. The poison the minister added had completely destroyed the balance of the power of the path inside "Holy Tree No. 1", turning it into a rather ordinary bottle of wine.
There is a very strong power of devotion in this wine.
The power of the path inside is pure, even much purer than the blood Aiwass used when he first used the shepherding method to tame the shadow demon at the first energy level; even It is similar to the pastoral method that Aiwass used after he obtained [Flesh and Blood Sacrifice]... From this point of view, the giant tree back then probably also had the path characteristic of [Flesh and Blood Sacrifice].
This is comingThe original purpose of the "dedication" from the giant tree is probably to improve the strength of other devotees who get this bottle of wine. If it were a phantom from the path of devotion, I am afraid that it would also be madly attracted to it.
If a devotee of the first level gets such a bottle of wine, after drinking it completely, he may be directly transferred to the third level. Even though Aiwass has now reached the fourth energy level, he can feel that his level is slowly rising.
As expected, the eternal pope can only drink one bottle of divine wine every time he wakes up.
There is no doubt that this is a genuine treasure!
It’s a pity that this wine is only effective for devotees. Otherwise, he would definitely drink a few bottles to Lily and Isabel.
When Aiwass drank his first cup, he suddenly understood - he completely understood Brother Monkey during the Peach Club.
——Experience potion limited to one time in three hundred years. Free and limited-time drinking banquet. Whoever doesn’t drink enough is a fool!
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